A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay. — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“The process of dehuminazing the locals was under way, and it had very little to do with veracity. The Puritan narratives would… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“...And although thus short, we shorten many ways, Living so little while we are alive; In eating, drinking, sleeping, vain delight So… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
“Well, it seems insane,” Bob finally said. “But it comes from our Puritan ancestors. Who were kind of insane, when you think… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“Beware of singing divine psalms for an ordinary recreation, as do men of impure spirits, who sing holy psalms intermingled with profane… — Lewis Bayly Copy Share Image
What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
The pornography of violence of course far exceeds, in volume and general acceptance, sexual pornography, in this Puritan land of ours. Exploiting… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Puritanism prolonged in America the medieval Christian view of the world and of human destiny. It taught men to distrust their natural… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
When I left England, my hope of India's conversion was very strong; but amongst so many obstacles, it would die, unless upheld… — William Carey Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the zeal of Boston's rank-and-file marathoners rivaled, and in some ways echoed, the religious passion of Nathaniel Howe and his congregation.… — John Brant Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon… — Maureen Brady Copy Share Image
“As William Bouwsma pointed out, the late medieval and early Renaissance crises of representation did not stall out at their skepticism of… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own… — Artemas Ward Copy Share Image
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“A Puritan is not against bullfighting because of the pain it gives the bull, but because of the pleasure it gives the… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart. — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
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